SILENT in a Sentence

Learn SILENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

261 example sentences for SILENT, such as:

1. Scarlett was silent and her heart sank.
2. Tears are the silent language of grief.
3. A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.
4. She kept silent, forcing Buchanan to continue.
5. Being silent is the perfect way to show contempt.

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 Meanings and Examples of SILENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
silent
 a.  making no sound; quiet
 a.  not speaking or using spoken expression
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling with sadness the beauty that evoked it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Zenobia's fault-finding was of the silent kind, but not the less penetrating for that.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
4  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  She stood silent a moment, drooping before him like a broken branch.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  With every yard of the way some spot where they had stood, and laughed together or been silent, clutched at Ethan and dragged him back.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  She was silent, but he felt a slight tremor in the shoulder against his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  She stood silent, her hands lying cold and relaxed in his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Mrs. Hale paused a moment, and I remained silent, plunged in the vision of what her words evoked.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Scarlett was silent and her heart sank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Even with Honey, with whom he had an unspoken understanding of marriage when he came into his property next fall, he was diffident and silent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  The laughter and talking became less animated and groups here and there fell silent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Her heart was quieter now and she tiptoed up the steps into the silent hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Over the waffles next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  After an interval of silent sewing, they heard sounds outside and, peering through the curtains, they saw Dr. Meade alighting from his horse.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  She kept silent, forcing Buchanan to continue.
17  Throughout the conversation he remained silent and aloof.
18  Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening amongthe silent trees.
19  Everyone was silent as the president announced the winner of the competition.
20  I just look at you now smiling silent pride lost so I follow you follow you happy and sad but I always stand now but you never stay in the past.
21  Light troubles speak; great troubles keep silent.
22  The room fell silent as she came face to face with the man who had tried to kill her.
23  Tears are the silent language of grief.
24  The silent majority of supportive parents and teachers should make their views known.
25  The march was by the silent majority who oppose terrorism.
26  A few people have spoken in favour of the plans to build a new car park, but I'm sure the silent majority are against it.
27  A silent movie doesn't mean it is motionless.
28  Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture.
29  Being silent is the perfect way to show contempt.
30  Thousands of people stood in silent tribute to the dead president.